I thought GIMP was just a free-er version of PS? They have all the same functions, just a different user layout. You should still be able to create actions in GIMP. Good luck on your ui project!

That's not quite how this works They may both be image editing software, but that doesn't guarantee a 1:1 of functionality.
GIMP doesn't actually have action recording built into it. It has a very large array of user-made plugins, though.
Something like the BIMP plugin may be useful for C. Dark's purposes (how does one ping a username with a space in it, anyway?)

Photoshop is most certainly overpriced for what it does, but it does do things a little bit differently.

Oh, I haven't used Gimp in awhile, but I'm sure you can get PS for free. Simmers are always sharing safe links on tumblr. Half the time on here I see modders using a 2015 version built for an Ipad on their laptops, so I'm sure it's doable. However, I did just a brief reading on google, and you can apparently create a GIMP script which works similar to PS actions, and it has the ability to color or rather colorize a photo. It's described as being an automated process, although I'm not sure if you can batch build with that. In any case, I still wish you all the best in your UI project. I just wanted to help others here as I've seen comments express the pain staking process of coloring each and every 4.2k png file.

Yes, there are a few scripts and plugins that can help make the workflow easier so hopefully those who needed it will find something suitable. It's a little more intimidating to work with when it isn't all built in, but being open source is always a plus
Just note while it may be relatively easy for many of us to obtain PS by other means, such things generally aren't allowed to be discussed or encouraged here. Even if it creates a bit of a gap between those of us with the tools and those without. (I may be stalling a texturing tutorial for the very reason that I've promised to give instructions for both programs... even if that means double the work )

Yeah I am really annoyed that I cannot use my preset from Colourise with bimp batch conversion, which would suits me more than colorize just with one colour, which does not fit for everything and no I have no knowledge in scripting. The settings of the batch image manipulating are really too little (for me).

Hi, I made ui recolor for sims 3 - link downloads - https://www.tumblr.com/fernpolska

Just wanted to let you and CardinalSims know that my mini tutorial has been extremely helpful for new simmers learning how to recolor the UI

Both of your attitudes were so strange I was going to delete my posts altogether, but it ended up helping more people than this very tutorial ever could

Feel free to ask any questions if you need assistance

Hi and thanks for the tutorial ! is it okay to dig up that topic ? I do have a few questions...

There is something I don't understand on the process of compiling recolored images into a .package file. I don't know where I failed, my UI works like a charm until it comes to NRaas mods (the menus are unclickable...)

Here is what I did so far:
- downloaded Helren's grey UI package to work from that
- extracted all the files
- batch recolored the files using a script
- dumped all the recolored files into a .package file

The recolored UI shows up fine in game there are things to adjust but it does the job for me. The only thing is, the NRaas menus are unclickable (like when you want to use the MasterController and a window shows up with all the options: can't click on them). It's the only thing that doesn't work, so idk what went wrong !

I then realised I forgot the KEY and LAYO files. I tried creating a new .package including my recolored images + the KEY and LAYO files found inside Helren's grey UI package, but the issue remains (Helren's package works fine with NRaas menus, though).
I know dino_rex mentionned a priority issue, but I have no idea how to work around this ! Would that be the issue in my case ?

I have no kowledge on modding, this was my first package ever so I would gladly use some help if it's okay and if you happen to know what I did wrong
Thanks a lot !